Sermons

3:16

All we have to do is look at the snake that bit us right in its reptilian eye.

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The Problem with Temples

3 Lent B 2024 Exodus 20:1-17Psalm 191 Corinthians 1:18-25John 2:13-22 In the 90’s I served a church in urban Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a key

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False Martyrs

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16Psalm 22:23-31Romans 4:13-25Mark 8:31-38 The Lord spoke to me this morning in the Spirit as I was praying about today’s sermon. He said:

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Where the Cotton Goes

Transfiguration B 2024 2 Kings 2:1-12Psalm 50:1-62 Corinthians 4:3-6Mark 9:2-9 Six days before Jesus hauled Peter, James and John up that mountain for a little

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The Gift of Desperation

A community that is brought together by a desperate need of the one true God would appear on the outside as weak and even vaguely pathetic. But in the upside-down kingdom of God, such a community is a well of incredible and miraculous power.

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Let Him

Deuteronomy 18:15-20Psalm 1111 Corinthians 8:1-13Mark 1:21-28 In the beginning of Chapter 18 of Deuteronomy, which deals with God’s establishment of religious leaders for the people,

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Mary’s Choice

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Luke 1:46b-55 Romans 16:25-27Luke 1:26-38 At this point in the world’s history, every minute of every day, about two hundred fifty

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